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by bsoles 1y ago
When my employer jumped on the bandwagon and built it's own internal wrapper around ChatGPT, I've tested it with a screen reader using keyboard navigation. And it was terrible. As long as humans don't really care about the di
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by bsoles 1y ago
Having gone to many international academic conferences, I learned to distinguish the quality of the talk from the quality of the content. I have seen good speakers with fluff content and terrible speakers with useful content. At this point,
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by bsoles 1y ago
This is semantic pedantry. The association true/1/high and false/0/low is well-known and understood.
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by bsoles 1y ago
This is such a weird advice and it seems to come from a particular experience of software development. How about using Booleans for binary things? Is the LED on or off, is the button pressed or not, is the microcontroller pin low or high? U
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by bsoles 1y ago
Not all people see colors the same. The section on "What is color?" could probably mention color blindness.
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by bsoles 1y ago
That hasn't been my experience in US. Login.gov, Social Security, Global Entry, etc. all work perfectly fine with Proton (@pm.me) domains. At least, so far.
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by bsoles 1y ago
I am also in the process of doing the same with Gmail to Proton. The process isn't really that painful and kind of fun, actually. Anytime I get an email on Gmail, I go and update it to point to my Proton email.
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by bsoles 1y ago
I did it by moving to the Proton ecosystem: Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, and Proton Pass, with the added bonus of Proton VPN. As much as I don't necessarily like it, I think we have to put a price on our privacy and personal data. And
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by bsoles 1y ago
TDD doesn't work for the same reasons why Todo lists don't work. I don't have a good explanation why that is so, but I know from countless examples (mine and other people's) that they don't work. In general, doing t
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by bsoles 1y ago
As a data point of one, I don't like complexity. Often, complexity is the result of not really understanding the problem space well, which results in organic complexity as one solves the problems as they are discovered. React is a perf
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by bsoles 1y ago
Any two linearly increasing or decreasing datasets will be necessarily highly correlated. But that doesn't mean anything unless you also have a plausible explanation why it is so. Also correlation is often taken to mean linear correlat
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by bsoles 1y ago
> Put systems into place that prevent it from happening again. Also called wishful thinking... Often such measures do definitely not work. There is even an internet law named for this: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to
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by bsoles 1y ago
The best (algorithm) programmer I know routinely puts stuff in code that could be published in top engineering journals. He doesn't care much about publishing, except for some of his work that went into patents. I like him a lot but he
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by bsoles 1y ago
> Because that would require leaving emacs, I guess. Yeah, but if this kind of social network was hosted on Vim, nobody would be able to exit it I guess.
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by bsoles 1y ago
I am no mathematician, but the idea of real numbers as the limit of rational numbers that don't belong to the set of all rational numbers blows my mind. And to top, the set of real numbers is so much bigger than the set of all rational
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by bsoles 1y ago
For proofs and introductory real analysis, I highly recommend Prof. Jay Cummings' books at the awesome price of about $20 on Amazon for freaking 400 page books. If anything, just buy it to support the guy.
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by bsoles 1y ago
> the “you sit down and think before you build” part of software engineering. Well, Agile, Scrum, and backlogs took care of that. /s
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by bsoles 1y ago
Why the downvotes? A democratic country should not have kings and queens, regardless of whether they have real power or not. Why should a person be so special in a democracy just because they have the right ancestors?
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by bsoles 1y ago
I meant "should of", especially in writing. I am not sure if "should've" is supposed to sound the same as "should of", but seeing the latter in writing annoys me a lot for some reason.
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by bsoles 1y ago
I wish people made a distinction between "leaders" and "bosses". The people described in the article are not leaders.
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by bsoles 1y ago
As a nonnative speaker of English who lived more than 30 years in an English speaking country, "try and" sounds to me as bad as "should of". Right or wrong, I perceive it as something an "uneducated" person wou
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by bsoles 1y ago
If a company doesn't have irreplaceable people, then that company is not doing anything interesting. Conversely, if replaceable people can produce your (software) product, then any other company can also do it. As much as I don't
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by bsoles 1y ago
Control of the chrome around the browser page I guess.
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by bsoles 1y ago
> Designated Teller of Hard Truths. As a small time consultant, as a side hussle, I tell my customers that their complete website like an LMS (learning management system) system cannot be done for $1000 on Upwork.
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by bsoles 1y ago
Aren't your passkeys stored with your password manager? As long as you have web access to your password manager, why would losing your phone be an issue? I am not a passkey users as I find them pretty confusing...
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by bsoles 1y ago
To my dismay, my company uses JavaScript, HTML, CSS with a custom Chromium-based web browser installed on your PC. The performance is shit: GUI performance that should take milliseconds takes seconds to render with constant pinging of corpo
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by bsoles 1y ago
Those people may not be innately stupid in the sense of not being able to learn or understand things. But they have been rendered functionally stupid by the media, propaganda, and politics. I actually find that state quite unrecoverable.
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by bsoles 1y ago
I remember "fondly" when a professor in China stole my paper from my PhD thesis; equations, pictures, and everything. I only found about it because a Chinese student in another lab came across both papers and was puzzled by the ex
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by bsoles 1y ago
There are also extremely misleading research articles out there promising good results with deep networks in the area of anomaly detection, without adequate comparison with more classical techniques. This well-known critical paper shows exa
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by bsoles 1y ago
But I have also seen people trying to use deep networks to identify rotating machinery faults, like bearings, from raw accelerometer data collected a high frequencies like 40 kHz. Whereas the spectrum of the data from running FFT on the sig

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